Welcome to the latest episode of our series, Hard Truths, I'm Nyla Budu.

Last season, we unpacked the effects of systemic racism in the US and told you stories about

how this shows up in the lives of people of color, from housing to sports to higher education

and beyond.

In this season, we wanted to focus on solutions and talk to the people who are working to

fix systemic inequities.

Today, voter registration.

Daisy Abrams created a blueprint in Georgia that helped the Democrats win two Senate

seats in Joe Biden, the presidency.

Now, can other states duplicate that work?

A lot of the credit for the Democratic Party's electoral wins in Georgia has gone to

Stacey Abrams, and the groundwork hern on partisan group, the new Georgia project, laid

in that state.

Their strategy was to focus on voter registration and education, and her success made others

take note of how they could engage more voters in purple states, like Pennsylvania and

North Carolina.

It was 2014 when then Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams founded the new Georgia

project.

That was also a midterm year.

And when the new Georgia project started, the non-profits goal for this new initiative

was to register at least 120,000 eligible but unregistered, black, Latino, and Asian-American

voters ahead of that year's elections.

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